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00925njm 22002777a 4500 dc Fageda, Xavier, 1975- author 2022-03-14T14:22:17Z 2022-03-14T14:22:17Z 2021-03-01 2022-03-14T14:22:18Z This paper examines the impact of urban light rail systems on congestion, travel time and pollution. Drawing on data from mid-size European cities, I estimate the impact of supply changes for the entire sample and applied a differences-in-differences analysis to a sample of cities that did not have rail systems in the initial year of the considered period. I find evidence that an increase in the supply of rail transport leads to less congestion, less travel time and less pollution. Furthermore, cities with a new rail system have on average 7% less congestion, 1% less travel time and 3% less pollution than cities with no rail systems. The results suggest that light rail systems have been successful in containing the negative externalities associated with car traffic in mid-size European cities. Contaminació atmosfèrica Transport ferroviari Congestió del trànsit Ciutats Europa Atmospheric pollution Railroad transportation Traffic congestion Cities and towns Europe Do light rail systems reduce traffic externalities? Empirical evidence from mid-size European cities